Lint is fuel. A textile mill generates it continuously, it settles everywhere including on motors, heaters and light fittings, and it accumulates in exactly the overhead places nobody looks. Given an ignition source — a hot bearing, a tenter burner, a hot-work spark — it carries fire faster than any other material in the building. It also coats sprinkler heads, which delays the one system meant to respond.
The steps ChatterFix schedules for this PM. Every step is a checkable item on the work order — a technician can speak their way through it without touching a keyboard.
Lint is fuel. A textile mill generates it continuously, it settles everywhere including on motors, heaters and light fittings, and it accumulates in exactly the overhead places nobody looks. Given an ignition source — a hot bearing, a tenter burner, a hot-work spark — it carries fire faster than any other material in the building. It also coats sprinkler heads, which delays the one system meant to respond.
Housekeeping falls behind in the least visible places first: ducts, overhead steel, cable trays and the tops of machines. Motor temperatures rise as lint insulates them. The mill runs like this for years without incident, which is precisely what makes the condition feel acceptable — right up to the ignition event, at which point the accumulated lint decides how far the fire travels.
Monthly documented control, with daily clearing at machines. Hot work must never proceed until the area is cleared, and that is a permit condition rather than a PM step. Increase frequency in dryers and around tenter burners.
This procedure — and every other PM for your industry — is already built into ChatterFix. Pick your industry and it lands on the right equipment, on the right interval, in about three minutes.